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The Law of Miracles

By Smith, Gregory Blake

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The Law of Miracles

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These stories take place in the space where the rational and irrational intersect - the space governed by The Law of Miracles. Writing with a remarkable range of invention, Gregory Blake Smith has created a world in which his characters navigate between the everyday and the extraordinary: an aged Russian woman who lives simultaneously in the St. Petersburg of iPods and BMWs and in the starving Leningrad of the Siege; a Venetian art conservator who loves the women of the Renaissance paintings he restores but cannot bear the touch of the woman at his side; a down-and-out slot-machine technician who calculates the probability of his wife's dying. Yet for all their variety of setting and subject, there runs through each of these stories a thread of the miraculous, a suspicion that the transcendent lies just at the edge of perception. We watch the characters of The Law of Miracles struggle toward that transcendence, whether it be through love or art or violence, until we as readers feel - like the main character of the Pushcart Prize - winning ""Presently in Ruins"" - that if we could only parse the seemingly random details of our existence some new pattern of meaning would emerge, some new magic that would transform our lives.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
178
Release Date:
2011-04-30
Publication Date:
2011-04-21
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1558499008
ISBN13:
9781558499003
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
254 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
212 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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